Improvement in chairs



C. M. OHA RA Improvement in Ch a i rS.

-No.131,892. Patented acu en.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Enron.

CHARLES ,MELSOM OHARA, or HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT INCHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,892, dated October 1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, CHAS. MELSOM OHARA, of Hillsborough, county of Highland, State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Chairs, of which the following is a specification:

To provide a chair which shall be simple, cheap, and susceptible of conformation to the form of the sitter is the object of my invention.

General Description. In the drawing, the figure is a chair without A is the frame of the chair-back. Y B is the swinging back. V O is the brace, which may be made with a joint in the middle or in one piece, and which engages with a loop or rod, 1), for the purpose of retaining the back in any desired position. The loop or rod D may be attached to theseat of the chair or anywhere I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The swinging back B, in combination with' the frame A and the supporting-brace 0-, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHAS. MELSOM OHARA.

Witnesses GEO. B. GARDNER, M. T. NELsoN. 

